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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distress Sale. In Nice, France, where condemned men pay for their traditional, hearty last supper, condemned but broke Collaborationist Eugéne de Balinfly raised cash for his by having four teeth yanked, selling the gold crowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...G.I.s who plan to open a nice, greasy little filling station and live happily ever after, the Department of Commerce last week held up a fatherly finger of caution. The Department warned that almost two-thirds of the 242,000 stations n the U.S. before the war grossed less than $10,000 a year, made an average profit of only 6% on gross, including the owner's salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Run a Filling Station? | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...wasn't all one-sided, however, for the Crimson goals, though in the main not the result of obviously set-up plays, were not flukes by any means. Bram Arnold and John Forte both beat the Dartmouth net-minders twice with nice shots, and Bill Ayres accounted for the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unsteady Crimson Bows to Favored Dartmouth Skaters | 2/19/1946 | See Source »

...Java fell and he met the Japanese again. Little Brown Thamboe said, "Oh, please, Mr. Tiger, don't eat me up, and I'll speak my beautiful English for you." So Thamboe started writing Japanese propaganda, and the Japanese were very proud of his nice words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Little Brown Thamboe | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Natty, popular President Carey Croneis (rhymes with grow nice) hopes to make Beloit "the best small liberal-arts college in the country." Its collegiate good living, as well as its scholastic offerings, are what make Beloit graduates send their children to Beloit as automatically as a Saltonstall goes to Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beloit's Century | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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